Petras wrote the song after struggling with her spirituality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Growing up transgender in Cologne, Germany, she felt excluded from traditional religious institutions that her friends belonged to.
The core of the song is a poignant question: Would more people embrace religion if religion embraced them first?. Kim Petras If Jesus Was A Rockstar mp3
The song imagines a version of Jesus that Petras could actually relate to—one who "dives off the stage," hangs out in bars, and lives like a rockstar. Petras wrote the song after struggling with her
